Steven Knapp, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, journeyed last Wednesday to Washington, D.C., where he testified in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness.

In his remarks, Knapp urged the government to support initiatives that strengthen American competitiveness, among them reversing the trend of declining funding for basic research, which leads to practical applications; investing in research universities, whose technology licenses and patents yield economic benefits as well as knowledge; improving the cumbersome visa process that hinders international intellectual exchange; and repairing the country's faltering K-12 education system, which also leads to weakness at the postsecondary level.

To read Knapp's complete remarks, go to www.jhu.edu/gazette/2006/03apr06/knapp.html.

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